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Performing Arts at CAM
Summer 2008
Performing Arts at CAM is a highly acclaimed program featuring internationally
renowned, as well as emerging, performance artists. Curated by Nina Colosi,
Performing Arts at CAM presents a diverse range of genres and cultural traditions—classical and contemporary music concerts, sound art installations, dance and physical
theater works —many of which emphasize the correlation between performing and
visual arts. Staging all performances directly in the exhibition galleries, Performing Arts at
CAM builds on the legacy of the abstract expressionist painter Jean Miotte, whose
foundation is housed within Chelsea Art Museum. Through his painting Miotte strove to
build a bridge between cultures and break through national boundaries to form a truly
international artistic language. It is in this spirit that CAM presents its programming.
Summer Solstice I Thursday 6/19 at 7 pm
Sonic Self Series Thursday 7/17 at 7pm
Sonic Self Series Friday 7/18 at 7pm
Sonic Self Series Saturday 7/19 at 7pm
Summer Solstice II Thursday 7/24 at 7pm
City Teens Dancing Around Town Thursday 7/31 at 2pm, 2:45pm, 6:30pm
Inna Faliks Thursday 8/7 at 7pm
Sonic Self Series Thursday 8/14 at 6pm
Summer Solstice III Thursday 8/21 at 7pm
Summer Solstice
Jessica Schmitz is a New York based flutists and curator of both contemporary and
traditional repertoire. She has performed internationally across a wide spectrum of
musical arts. As a featured soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player she has
given the world premieres of many pieces in the US, and has also worked with such
composers as Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, David Lang, Robert Dick, Steve Mackey,
Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, and Harold Meltzer. Jessica Schmitz is a guest curator
within the Performing Arts at CAM program and presents leading New York City
performers in her concert series.
Inna Faliks
Described by critics as "electrifying, warmly poetic, passionate, a musician who uses her
technical perfection to take risks, and a mature musical personality," Inna Faliks made
her debut with the Chicago Symphony at age 15 and has been performing solo,
chamber music and concerti in the US and abroad.
City Teens Dancing Around Town
Young Dancemakers Company, a unique summer ensemble of 18 city high school teens creating and performing their own work, presents its 13th summer season of free city-wide concerts July 21 to August 3 at various sites city-wide. In addition to original student choreography, the company will perform an excerpt from Merce Cunningham's "Field Dances" staged by Mary Lisa Burns of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Sonic Self Series
To complement the exhibition Sonic Self, this concert series brings together local and
international sound artists, musicians, video/multimedia and performance artists to
facilitate the exchange and development of pioneering ideas, innovative skills and
practices in contemporary Sound Art discipline. The Sonic Self - a sound-art related
exhibition aims at developing an open and direct audio-visual dialog between video
and sound artists in order to expose significant similarities and differences in the growing
confluence of audio and visual experiences in the emerging Sonic Culture, where;
communication, sound and visual experience merge as significant pattern in the
cultural sensibility towards sound and the surrounding persistent, random ‘audio
architecture’ – a kind of sonic explosion that can be seen as a breakthrough of the
Sonic Itself. This series is curated by Sonic Self curator Jolanta Gora-Wita.
Sonic Self Series Program Details
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Ramya Ramnarayan’s Nrithyanjali Dance (India)
Drumpaiting - Cyland laboratory
Damian Catera, Hahn Rowe & Text of Light
Friday, July 18, 2008
Zuvuya Collective, BICAMERAL, Zemi17 GAMELOTRON, Christian Austin, Olga M, Peter
Shapiro, Talena Sanders, Martha Williams, Jen Kosky, Chris Jordan and Amoeba
Technology - Dok Gregory and Peter Principle.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
David Linton, Greg Smith with 2dead5Wounded, Nigel Dickie & Veinmelter.
Thursday, August, 14, 2008
Avant-Garde Theater & Sound: Tadeusz Kantor - Theatrical dynamism, scale, texture
and sonic properties in early avant-garde theater. Video, documentaries and
discussion panel.
Yamaha Disklavier is the official piano of Performing Arts at CAM
Tickets $15/$10 Students, Seniors / free CAM Members.
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